Xmas is Coming ...

On 1st Dec we launched our 2011 Advent Calendar http://bit.ly/ty8mQ4 with offers, tips or competitions for freebies such as free business cards each day. Each new "window" will be available from 9 a.m. each morning - take a look and see what's behind the window today.

During the last week we've also been compiling a number of quarterly SEO reports for clients. The reports we supply look at how the site has performed and suggest areas for improvement. Once improvements are agreed we make changes to the site to attract more visitors and improve its search engine ranking - all as part of our SEO or e-marketing packages.

We have also launched a new website for Ann Kenney, a yoga teacher in Berkshire, and made some design changes to her hypnotherapy site so that they largely match to give a consistent image. We still have a little work to complete for Ann's new site but wanted to get it up and running with SEO content included so that search engine's are showing it well for the New Year. We will also be creating Ann's Google Adwords campaigns which will be launched at the start of the New Year to help those of you who want to tone up after the Xmas excesses.

It was also another busy week on the marketing front with two new websites commissioned and an e-marketing contract agreed. More details of these will be posted later and we have meetings with our new website clients next week to finalise the details. Next week also sees us meeting a potential partner for a long-term web-based business application plus meeting a potential client for a new website. It's great to be busy despite the economic doom and gloom and great to see that new contacts and existing clients are also doing well.

This week should see the launch of our new plumbers and heating engineers directory which has been developed by Manoj, who is really impressing me with his ability and work ethic. This will continue to be developed over time but will list businesses based on town/city and county. Each entry will be editable by the client with a banner, testimonials and images included. We are giving away lifetime listings for the first 3 relevant businesses in each town and will build it on a county by county basis starting with Cleveland. So if you are a plumber or heating engineer, or have friends and family who are, get them to contact me and we'll add them for free.